@dnotestone wrote:
am I correct that my wife and I can agree to split our tax paid on the original joint return however we want on our amended separate tax returns
Yes, but the IRS computers aren't set up that way.
In most cases, the IRS computers will allocate the payment to the first person on the tax return. If you want to allocated differently, you likely will need to call the IRS to have them allocate it in whatever way you want, *IF* you can find the right person that knows how to do it and *IF* they have finally fixed their transfer program (I think they fixed it now, but for many, many months the ability to transfer payments from one spouse to another was broken).
As a side note, in regard to the other answers that mentioned changing from MFJ to MFS needs to be done by April 15th, that is only partly true. It needs to be done by the due date of your tax return; if you filed an extension, that would be October 15th.
